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Comment by mrcold | Hacker News Reader

Welcome to the club. We don't have free drinks or anything. Only endless depression and no will to continue.

But seriously, things are fucked and it's only getting worse. I'm in the same shoes and I'm trying a startup in my spare time. Plus, the guy running our project decided to quit and leave me alone with a monster made out of spaghetti code. Just finished updating my resume, hoping I won't need to use it.

Don't have any advice that could help. Because the problem is pure greed. Everybody is acting like a vicious greedy fuck, chasing money like there's no tomorrow. Life is now a river of shit and we're all just floating on the surface, waiting for an island or something. People don't seem to care about it either. Complacency is everywhere. Can't say I blame them.

Anyway, the west is crumbling. Go to a cheaper country. With an IT job you will have enough.

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The fuck? We're programmers. We have the easiest lives of the working class. I'm literally sitting here in my underwear, unshaven, drinking a beer, making stupid money for coding objectively pointless crap much like 99% of us. It's absurd. Lighten up.

You work for liberty, like me. Others took the work visa to Microsoft land. It's a well monied but shitty place.

I work in MS land. Still pretty easy relatively speaking. I always feel slightly guilty when I think of my brothers who work in construction and hospitality respectively, for low-pay and long hours.

I would be happy too if I was a freelancer working from home. Try cutting your income in half and going every day to an office to answer to a manager dumber than you. See how much you like it then.

I hated it and I quit, this was two weeks ago and I'm actually sort of struggling for income lol. I have like two months to make this work. But simply having that option sit in the back of my head made it easy enough to go to work, because I knew that if it got bad enough I can just get up and leave.

So in one hour you went from making stupid money to struggling for income.

Once this contract runs out theres no guarantee of a next one ;)

Sounds fulfilling.

I work from home too. But that doesn't mean we have the easiest job.

An old saying a coach of mine had "if it was easy, everyone would do it". So if it's easy, why isn't everyone doing it?

...also, what is stupid money? $200k+? anything less than that is just called regular money.

I first heard this joke on the Drew Carey Show.

"Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, they meet at the bar"

I love outbursts like these :D I am miserable in general and and this made my evening, thanks

If you love depressive yet uplifting outbursts, try Ecclesiastes.

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Thank you :)

I sympathize with you. Greed has taken over everywhere.

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